The Lancaster News/Carolina Gateway photographer Aaron Morrison was moved to the rehab center at Charlotte’s Carolinas Medical Center on Friday, July 25, where he is still recovering from severe head injuries.

Police are still searching for a Lancaster man wanted for threatening a woman with a large machete inside her home earlier this month.

An arrest warrant was issued July 13 for Robert Earl Cunningham, 49, for the charge of criminal domestic violence high and aggravated, though he had not been arrested by Friday, July 26, according to Lancaster Municipal Court records.

Lancaster County school board members unanimously approved several new appointments to fill vacancies at county schools during their July 16 board meeting.

Recommended by Lancaster County School District Superintendent Dr. Gene Moore, the new appointments include a new principal to replace North Elementary School’s longtime principal and two assistant principals.

The July 16 meeting was also the first for the district’s new directors of elementary education and food services, both of whom started this month.

It’s not unusual for school clubs to have summer activities, but Lancaster County’s high school FFA chapters are among the most active.

While some students are stuck at home during summer break, FFA members from three of Lancaster County’s four high schools, Andrew Jackson, Buford and Indian Land, traveled to the 86th annual S.C. FFA Convention at Clemson University last month.

Lancaster County School District’s dropout rate fell during the 2011-12 federal fiscal year, a trend that mirrors a state decrease in the number of high school dropouts.

According to a report on student dropout rates released by the S.C. Department of Education on Wednesday, July 24, a total of 101 out of 3,402 high school students dropped out of Lancaster County high schools during 2011-12, a rate of 3 percent.

A community forum was held Tuesday, July 23, in Lancaster City Hall council chambers to discuss the problem of child hunger in Lancaster County and possible solutions.

The forum was a result of the Midlands Family Study, a child hunger study out of the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the University of South Carolina. Eight South Carolina counties, including Lancaster, were chosen for the study. A total of 550 families were interviewed to determine the reasons behind child hunger.